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- American
- Early Life and Education
- Early Career in Chicago
- Europe and Taliesin, 1909-14
- Turmoil and Travels, 1915-28
- Rejuvenation and Stability
- The Fellowship
- Taliesin West and Wright's Late Career
- The Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright
He was born Frank Lincoln Wright June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA, which - as many scholars have rightfully noted - was a mere two years after the end of the American Civil War. Thus his lifespan of more than ninety-one years extends between then and the dawn of the Space Age in 1959. And yet, Wright was not even the longest-lived no...
In Chicago, Wright found a job as a draftsman with Joseph Lyman Silsbee, who was actually engaged in several projects for Wright's extended family, the Lloyd Joneses, in Wisconsin and in Chicago. He made fast friends with a co-worker, Cecil Corwin, moving in with him until he found his own space. Feeling underpaid, however, Wright soon quit for a j...
In Europe, Frank and Mamah traveled to Berlin, where Wright was in negotiations with the publishing house of Ernst Wasmuth to produce folios of his work up to that time, but settled ultimately in Fiesole, a small hamlet near Florence, Italy. Florence was still the nexus of the European expatriate community of English speakers, though Wright and Mam...
In late 1914 Wright received a letter of sympathy from Maude Miriam Noel, a sculptress who had also experienced great personal tragedy, including the death of her husband. By the end of the year she had moved into Taliesin, and when Wright received the commission for the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1916, he took her with him to Japan. The two wo...
In 1924 Wright had met Olga ("Olgivanna") Lazarovich Hinzenburg, a Montenegro-born estranged wife of a Russian architect, at an opera performance in Chicago. She was a follower of Georgi Gurdjieff, an Armenian philosopher whose understanding of humanity argued that most people were not nearly as aware of themselves or the world around them as they ...
Launched in 1932, the Taliesin Fellowship immediately attracted a core group of students, including some of Wright's most well-known followers today, such as Edgar Tafel and William Wesley Peters (who became Wright's son-in-law after he married Olgivanna's daughter Iovanna). The Fellowship was a true oddity, as Wright himself disdained formal archi...
In the mid-1930s, Wright's doctors advised him to spend winters in a warmer, drier climate. Having visited Arizona during the 1920s for commissions that ultimately evaporated, starting in 1933 he and the Fellowship now began to trek to Arizona every November and stay until the following May. In 1937 Wright acquired land in Scottsdale, then far outs...
After Wright's death, his apprentices worked to finish the remaining commissions with which he was charged, some of which, such as the Marin County Civic Center in California, have been ranked among Wright's most important works. Wright's own practice became known as Taliesin Associated Architects, which continued to function as a cooperative archi...
- American
- June 8, 1867
- Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
- April 9, 1959
Sprite. Frank Lloyd Wright American. Alfonso Iannelli American. ca. 1914. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 700. "Sprite" was originally part of a large sculpture program for Wright’s Midway Gardens in Chicago. Built for Edward C. Waller Jr. and Oscar Friedman in 1914, the complex was designed as an entertainment center.
Over the course of his 70-year career, Wright became one of the most prolific, unorthodox and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture, creating no less than twelve of the Architectural Record’s hundred most important buildings of the century. Realizing the first truly American architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses, offices ...
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80 results. Frank Lloyd Wright. Clear all. Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, 1912 (removed 1967) Frank Lloyd Wright. Spindle Cube Chair, 1902–6. Frank Lloyd Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Jacobs House, Middleton, Wisconsin, Perspective, 1944. Frank Lloyd Wright. Darwin D. Martin House: “Tree of Life” Window, 1904.
Frank Lloyd Wright American. 1912–14. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 745. Wright designed a set of six oak standing lamps (1972.60.14-.19) in total for the Littles’ summer house on Lake Minnetonka. The shades consist of hexagonal oak frames filled with parchment paper.
After Wright's death, most of his archives were stored at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin (in Wisconsin), and Taliesin West (in Arizona). These collections included more than 23,000 architectural drawings, some 44,000 photographs, 600 manuscripts, and more than 300,000 pieces of office and personal correspondence.